Missions: Ordeal in Viet Nam

The difficult lot of South Viet Nam's 300
foreign-born missionaries and church relief workers* has become doubly
hard in the past month. Since the beginning of the Communists' Tet
offensive, eight have been killed, and a dozen more either kidnaped or
wounded; several churches and mission compounds have been destroyed or
damaged by gunfire. Last week the Quakers' American Friends Service
Committee, which operated a child day-care center and medical
rehabilitation clinic in Quang Ngai, prepared to pull out of South Viet
Nam. "The intensified military operations throughout the country,"
announced a committee spokesman in Philadelphia, have made it
"impossible...